Sao Feng was dead
according to their new Pirate King Elizabeth Swann and since he had
been the only one to recognize and remember the identities of the two
women that had once stood as the former Lord's bodyguards; it fell
on Ragetti's shoulders to tell Mistress Ching something very
important.

The blind Pirate Lord
was currently in her chambers, two heavily armed guards blocking the
door.

Ragetti hesitated when
he saw their angry and scarred faces and he fiddled with his new eye
patch before finally building up enough nerve to walk up to the door
and face them.

"I need ta see
Mistress Ching." He said softly.

"Mistress Ching does
not wish to be disturbed!"

"Et's importan'!"
he insisted, wringing his hands.

Swords were drawn and
pointed at him dangerously.

"Move away!" the
guard growled.

"Please…"

One of the guards
suddenly stepped forward, a wicked grin on his face.

The two guards promptly
snapped to attention, sheathing their blades at once as Mistress
Ching slowly stepped out of her room, her cane softly tapping on the
ground as she frowned, her dead eyes moving from one guard to the
other.

"Marm, I mus' speak
wi' yer abou' somefing importan'." Ragetti said.

A smile came to her
face when Ragetti spoke and slowly she walked towards him, holding
out a hand.

"Mackenzie? Is that
you?" she asked. Nodding, Ragetti promptly offered her his arm as
she reached out with one hand to lightly touch his face.

"Aye." He nodded.

"Come and walk with
me! The sun should be setting soon and I like to sit out there until
it's gone; even if I can't see it myself."

"Marm…I…"

"Yes, I know! You
have something important to speak with me about! Surely that can
wait, yes?" she asked, cocking one thin eyebrow as she promptly
began to pull him forward.

Biting his lower lip,
Ragetti found that he did not have the heart to deny the old blind
woman her request and he sighed as he soon found himself walking side
by side with her down the streets of Shipwreck Cove's underground
pirate city.

She started talking to
him then, telling him all about the numerous raids and plundering she
and her crew had gotten involved in before the song was sung and the
Court was called for.

Ragetti was not
listening to her however, his mind focused too much on how he was
going to have to tell her that her two daughters were dead; one of
which being raped first before her murder.

Looking over at Ching
sadly, his heart went out to her, knowing that the news may kill her.

…

Ever since Mistress
Ching's ancestor was given the Piece to control rain storms and the
other original Pirate Lord named Jun was given the Piece to control
the waves; the two Lords had always worked hard on keeping a kind of
alliance between themselves since they both came from the same
country.

This alliance continued
even after Jun's line died out and Sao Feng's family took control
of the Piece but not its power. To show her trust in Sao Feng's
leadership and ability to be a good Lord; Mistress Ching had allowed
her only daughters Lian and Park to go and learn how to properly use
the blade as Sao Feng's crewmembers until they both reached their
twenty-first birthday.

They only 'ad 'un
more year afore goin' back ta their mum. Ragetti thought for a
moment as Beckett's soldiers made themselves known, Mercer's
bullet piercing Park's skull and killing her instantly.

He stopped in his
fighting and promptly went to defend Lian as she knelt over her
sister in disbelief.

"I'm going to kill
him!" she snarled and before Ragetti could try to stop her, she was
charging off to fight Mercer and avenge her sister.

"Feck!" he
muttered.

He found her body by
accident during their mad scramble to get out of there; her eyes wide
and staring up at him and her clothes torn and exposing her body.

Mercer had had some fun
before killing her and Ragetti found that he was going to be very
sick, staring into those wide open eyes.

It was Pintel who
snapped him out of it, grabbing him roughly by his elbow and yanking
him away just as Jack's use of explosives proved to be handy after
all.

…

"My daughters are
dead aren't they?"

Blinking, Ragetti
snapped out of his memories and he looked at Mistress Ching in
surprise. The two of them were sitting out on a stone ledge, the
waters below them pounding on the rocks as the sun slowly started to
make its way down to allow his cousin the moon to light the sky.

"Hmm?" he asked
softly, unsure if he had heard her right.

She kept her face
staring straight ahead, sadness in her eyes and voice as she spoke
once more.

"My heart…it
started to hurt a few weeks ago." She explained softly. "I knew
that it was them and you coming to me and saying that you need to
tell me something important…It just fit together."

"I'm sure they
did." She agreed. "It is just…now I am the last of my bloodline
and after I die this Piece's power will be lost forever."

"Ye've go' a lo'
o' years lef' ta live, marm."

"I am an old woman,
Mackenzie. There is no way that I would be able to bear another child
before dying." She explained to him gently.

"Marm…"

"But I am sure you
feel the same way about yourself really." She added, gently resting
a wrinkled hand over his own. "After all, you are the only Ragetti
left and you have a matelot who loves you."

Ragetti blushed and
bowed his head. He didn't want to admit it aloud, but at times he
had felt guilty when it came to his love for Pintel. It would be
because of this that the line of Ragetti would end with him as he and
Pintel would obviously be unable to have children of their own to
pass on the power to.

"This truly is the
year for endings." She chuckled softly. "You and I are the end of
the old Lords and their power and either the entire pirate world
shall end or Beckett's life shall end. I just wish that this
wouldn't make our Pieces nothing but stupid baubles!"

"If'n we release
Calypso then we wouldn' be lettin' 'em go ta waste." He
offered softly.

"That's true."
She agreed. "But how do we know that She won't simply just kill
us and move on from there?"